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Seeing a lot of FF14 posting in anticipation of the fanfest, specifically a lot of people who seem to genuinely believe 'Beastmaster Limited Job' stands even a McFucking Chance, and I have to wonder what it's like being in the head of someone who sees Blue Mage (who waited 2 years between major updates only to receive 20 new spells, of which 5 were basic 220 GCDs, 3 were 120s oGCD damage cooldowns, and one which was literally just 'Magic Hammer but for physical stats'), and thinking to yourself in full sincerity the thought that, 'Yeah, this is a dev team that doesn't regret this workload at all, surely they want to do it again, and this time they're gonna wrangle offensive pet AI back into the game while they do it'.

To hedge my bets here, if I eat my words in a few days I'll be pleasantly surprised, sure, whatever, but like. I don't think it's unrealistically pessimistic to say they seem to not enjoy using manpower on this kind of content anymore.


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in reply to @C-Kiri's post:

really surprised to learn that Beastmaster hopes are still stirring; i thought they were more founded in the lead up to 6.0 with Lyon in Bozja... doing it now? can't imagine it, especially with how every part of the game feels vestigial right now (i cannot agree enough about the BLU update, sheeeeeeeesh)

BLU80 finally got me to resub after a year (at first Abyssos just didn't do anything for me, then the Paladin rework happened and I still don't forgive them), just because I wanted to go spell hunting with a group of friends week 1 before everyone started just looking up spoilers. I don't think I can say I was 'disappointed' because the act of doing that stuff With People was always gonna be fun, but...

Look, for fuck's sake they made me sit through the hour long cutscene that is E12N to literally get a 220 with a knockback. All the potentially cool shit that happened in Eden and they gave me 'Laser Eye' and no mount for the savage, or for Omega for that matter. And you can tell that wasn't even a joke they made on purpose, because it wasn't 'putting Hildibrand in a dress again'.

On god, I literally posted that reply and then started bitching about this exact thing in a group chat. I don't like to bad-faith tinfoil hat too much about this shit, but they're REALLY not beating the 'we projected low completion rates for this content we didn't want to make and decided to just make people pay for this asset we programmed' allegations, considering the Shadowkeeper mount came out on mogstation less than a month before BLU80.